A statistic (or stat) in role-playing games is a piece of data that represents a particular aspect of a fictional character. That piece of data is usually a (unitless) integer or, in some cases, a set of dice.

For some types of statistics, this value may be accompanied with a descriptive adjective, sometimes called a specialisation or aspect, that either describes how the character developed that particular score or an affinity for a particular use of that statistic (like Specialisations in Ars Magica or Attribute Aspects in Aria).

"Master…" Xie Anan was weeping, her apple-like face red.
Of the three disciples, her aptitude and Cultivation were the lowest. Li Yao had only recruited her as a disciple for her determination.
Li Yao was more than satisfied that she could participate in the research programs of some of the high-end magical equipment. He was not expecting her to become someone great.
Working in the field to one's liking and finding and surpassing one's limits were already good enough.
As a refiner, it was actually Xie Anan who had spent the longest time in Li Yao's company in the past five years.
Her level was the lowest, and her emotions were the most obvious of all. Her affection and unwillingness written all over her face, she sobbed. "Master, are you really leaving just like that?"
"Rest assured. I'll be back one day!" Li Yao felt somewhat heavy himself, but he pretended to be smiling. "In a few decades, or a hundred years at most, I will certainly announce my return. You will only be in your a hundred and twenties by then. For a high-level Cultivator, it is just the beginning of your golden years. We can always reunite again!
"Anan, while I'm away, you must train with the techniques I've left for you. Do not be left behind by them too much. Got it?"
"Rest assured, Master. I'll certainly try my best!"
Biting her lips softly, Xie Anan clenched her fists.
However, her face collapsed again after being 'resolute' for only half a second. "Master, I really can't bear to let you go. I really don't understand why you are making such a choice! You already have everything in the Star Glory Federation. Position, power, money, and strength. You can whatever you want easily. Are they not attractive enough for you to stay?"
"The things you mentioned are exactly why I must leave."
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao stared at his three disciples with his sparkling eyes and said solemnly, "Anan, did you ever do 'role-playing' when you were little or simulation board games such as 'Monopoly' with your playmates?"
Dazed for a moment, Xie Anan nodded. "Of course I did."
Li Yao smiled and continued, "When you were role-playing, you must've played a lot of roles, even including princesses, didn't you? When you played 'Monopoly', you must've earned a lot of money in the game and become a billionaire before, right?"
Xie Anan nodded in a daze again.
Li Yao looked at her and said, "Then why did you stop playing such games?"
Xie Anan frowned and blurted out, "Do—do I need a reason? It's because I outgrew the games. They were no longer as interesting to me as before."
"If I tell you that, for me, the titles such as Ultra-Level Federal Hero are like 'Your Highness' when you were playing role-playing as a little girl, the tremendous assets brought to me by the Glorious Sunlight Group, the Double Dragons Union, and Skyfire are like the cash you earned while playing games such as 'Monopoly', will you find my decision more comprehensible?"
Xie Anan was lost for words for a moment. She, Jin Xinyue, and Wu Mayan all fell into deep thought.
After a long sigh, Li Yao said slowly, "People say that Cultivators have no desires and choose to pursue the unpredictable, ultimate truth instead of enjoying all the temptations of the mortal world!
"When I hadn't reached the level yet, I had exactly the same questions and thought that the so-called 'unearthly' is just bullsh*t. If a Cultivator does not know how to appreciate the beautiful world but simply throws away fame, fortune, and entertainment as if they are well-worn shoes, what's the difference between such a Cultivator and a eunuch?
"It was not until my Cultivation reached such a level that I began to realize that Cultivators do not 'have no desires'. On the very contrary, our desires are hundreds and thousands of times stronger than ordinary people's. We are essentially so 'horny' and 'lustful' that we want to pursue, swallow, and burn with everything we have!
"However, our desires can no longer be satisfied by the wealth, entertainment, and power of the mortal world, just like your desires cannot be satisfied by the title of 'Your Highness' while you are role-playing or the vast wealth in a game of 'Monopoly'!
"If a bunch of three-year-olds invite you to role-play, saying that they are willing to crown you with the most fabulous titles such as princess, queen, fairy… and if they play 'Monopoly' with you, offering you all the cash and real estate, I'm afraid that you will still be too bored to play the games with them, right?
"In the eyes of little kids, you are someone with no desires because what they cherish and pursue is not worth mentioning at all from the bottom of your heart.
"But you know that you have long surpassed the level of the little kids. Of course, you have your desires, your goals, and your dreams, but they are things that can never be gratified by role-playing and Monopoly.
"Even the greediest bandit will not fight for the toy cash in a game of Monopoly with little kids, right? It's the same!"
"How can they be the same?" Xie Anan said in a hurry. "Role-playing and Monopoly are both false, but the world that we are living in is real! How can becoming a 'queen' in role-playing and becoming a… let's say, Speaker of the federation in the real world be the same?"
"They are the same, in that they equally cannot satisfy my appetite and desires." Li Yao smiled. With the greediest brilliance beaming out of his eyes, he mumbled, "What about Speaker of the Federation?
"The federation has been established for five hundred years. There have already been almost seventy Speakers, and there will be another seventy in the five hundred years to come.
"Even turning into the Speaker of the Federation only means that you are just one of the hundred and fifty people.
"The Star Glory Federation, on the other hand, is just an insignificant country in a remote area in the sea of stars. How many Speakers, prime ministers, presidents, and even emperors have been out there in the three thousand Sectors over the past ten thousand years?
"Thousands? Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands?
"Becoming one of the hundreds of thousands people and repeating the 'great accomplishment' that hundreds of thousands of people have achieved… can I be satisfied by such a life? This is a great joke!"
Xie Anan, Wu Mayan, and Jin Xinyue were all greatly moved.
They never knew that their master's ambitions were so huge!
"Then, what is it that you are pursuing?" the three of them asked respectfully at the same time.
A hint of confusion flowed out of Li Yao's eyes at first before it turned into intense excitement. He said with a smile, "I don't know. The sea of stars is a vast and splendid place. Even I don't know what kind of wonders and interesting beings are lying in wait in the universe! Therefore, I can't say for sure what I'm pursuing after right now. The best I can do right now is broaden my horizons, step by step, know myself, and understand what it is that not I'm pursuing."
Pausing for a moment, Li Yao covered the back of his head with both hands before he leaned back in his chair and said with a smile, "Perhaps, this is the most fascinating part about being a Cultivator!"
…
There were three days to go before Li Yao's departure.
He held a grand party in Floating Spear City, gathering the closest friends in order to say goodbye to them.
Professor Mo Xuan, Fiend Blade Peng Hai, 'Solar Eclipse' Jiang Shaoyang, Meng Jiang from high school, who are from the Star Glory Federation; the Fire Ant King from the Blood Demon Sector; and Xiong Wuji, Lei Dalu, and Bai Kaixin from the Flying Star Sector all attended the party.
"Li Yao, you still didn't leave the opportunity to me!" Professor Mo Xuan said with a bitter smile. "I knew that you would make such a choice!"
"My apologies, Professor!" Li Yao laughed. "I can concede in almost anything except the quest of the Great Dao!"
"Li Yao, I will take great advantage of this!" 'Solar Eclipse' Jiang Shaoyang's eyes were shining and said, "Your training progress will be very slow while you are in the hibernation state, if it is moving forward at all, whereas I will certainly make great breakthroughs in the next hundred years. You will certainly be no match for me in a hundred years!"
"That will be for the best!" Li Yao licked his lips and grinned. "I'll simply allow you to train yourself for a hundred years before we have another competition!"
Lei Dalu and Bai Kaixin bashed their chest and said, "Li Yao, leave everything in the Flying Star Sector to us. Just rest assured!"
Ever since Li Yao soared in the Flying Star Sector, the Great Horn Exo Society had begun to develop unstoppably.
At first, they cooperated with the Glorious Sunlight Group and monopolized most of the transportation business between Iron Plateau and the outside world. With the opportunity, they then established the trade routes among the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Flying Star Sector, and the Blood Demon Sector.
Eventually, the Great Horn Exo Society and the Glorious Sunlight Group even had a merger. Lei Dalu and Bai Kaixin became the core management of the Glorious Sunlight Group.
Right now, Lei Dalu was responsible for the armed transportation business, which was one of the Great Horn Exo Society's focuses in the past, and Bai Kaixin had slowly taken over the operations of key businesses within the Glorious Sunlight Group.
It was not because Li Yao distrusted the members of the Wu family who were running the Glorious Sunlight Group in the beginning but because Bai Kaixin, who had apparently inherited all his father's wisdom and cunningness, boasted rarely-seen talents in administration and management that were impossible to be fully carried out in a small Great Horn Exo Society. After he joined the Glorious Sunlight Group, he was like a dragon or a ferocious tiger who had been set free from the shackles and immediately distinguished himself!
Li Yao, Lei Dalu, and Bai Kaixin were life-and-death friends. Naturally, it was not difficult for him to put Bai Kaixin in charge of the Glorious Sunlight Group.
"Everybody…"
Li Yao raised the cup, gazing at the familiar faces in front of him.
The buddies who used to horse around with him, the teachers who had offered him wholehearted tutelage, the seniors who showed him the mysteries of the world of the Cultivators for the first time, the comrades who went through life-blighting battles with him, and even the competitors who were at loggerheads with him in the past all gave him complicated feelings.
"Let's meet again… in a hundred years!"
Li Yao knocked his head back and finished the wine in the cup!


“Even if this universe is truly nothing more than a brutal, bloody, shadowy forest, we Cultivators will burn all that we have just to give off a single weak flickering spark in the darkness! 
“No matter how weak each spark is, how short-lived, how small… As long as the sparks flow unabated, then one day one of those sparks will light some tinder, and that tinder shall light some fallen branches, and those branches shall set ablaze each and every last tree of the forest! 
“In the end, even the smallest sparks will eventually set the shadowy forest ablaze and illuminate the whole world!”
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Multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) is a subgenre of strategy video games in which each player controls a single character as part of a team competing against another team of players, usually on a map in an isometric perspective. The ultimate objective is to destroy the opposing team's main structure with the assistance of periodically-spawned computer-controlled units that march forward along set paths; however, MOBA games can have other victory conditions, such as defeating every player on the enemy team. Player characters typically have a set of unique abilities that improve over the course of a game and which contribute to the team's overall strategy. This type of multiplayer online video games originated as a subgenre of real-time strategy, though MOBA players usually do not construct buildings or units, and there are examples of MOBA games that cannot be considered RTS at all, such as Smite (2014), and Paragon. The genre is seen as a fusion of real-time strategy, role-playing, and action games.
The first widely accepted "game" in the genre was Aeon of Strife (AoS), a custom map for StarCraft in which four players each control a single powerful unit and, aided by weak computer-controlled units, compete against a stronger computer. Defense of the Ancients (DotA), a mod from 2003, that includes a map based on AoS for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, was one of the first major titles of its genre and the first MOBA for which sponsored tournaments have been held. It was followed by two spiritual successors, League of Legends (2009) and Heroes of Newerth (2010), and eventually a sequel, simply titled Dota 2 (2013), as well as numerous other games in the genre, such as Heroes of the Storm (2015).
The genre has become a big part of the esports category with the prize pools of over 60 million dollars in 2018, which is about 40% of the total esports prize pools in the same year.
Gameplay
Each match starts with two opposing teams, typically made up of five players. Players work together as a team to achieve the ultimate victory condition which is to destroy their enemy's base though some games have the option of different victory conditions. Usually, each team has main structure which must be protected until opposing team's is destroyed, preventing enemy team from doing the same. The first team to destroy the opposing team's main structure wins the match. Destroying other structures within the opposing team's base may confer other benefits. Defensive structures, which are usually automatic "towers", are in place to prevent this, as well as relatively weak computer-controlled units, called "minions", which periodically spawn in groups at the base and marching down predefined paths (called "lanes") toward the enemy base. There are typically 3 "lanes" that are the main ways of getting from one base to another; in between the lanes is an uncharted area called the "jungle." The lanes are known as top, middle and bottom lane, or, in gamer shorthand – "top", "mid" and "bot".
A player controls a single powerful in-game unit, called "hero", or "champion". When a hero stands near a killed enemy unit or kills an enemy unit, they gain experience points and gold which allow the hero to level up and buy items at a store. When a hero levels up, they may strengthen one of their abilities which they typically have four of. If a hero runs out of health points and dies, he is removed from active play until a respawn timer counts down to zero, where he is then respawned in his base. Respawn time generally increases as hero levels up.
Heroes typically fall into one of several roles, such as tank, damage dealer, healer, and support. Every hero has their own diverse kit with unique abilities, design, strengths, and weaknesses. Also typically, there is a large starting pool of heroes – League of Legends, for instance, began with 40, and has added at least one new one every month for its entire lifespan, reaching 100 in 2012. This adds to the learning curve of the game as players learn the game's goals and strategies. Players usually find at least one hero they excel at playing, and familiarize themselves with the remaining roster. Additionally, each hero is deliberately limited in the roles they can fulfill. No one hero is ever (supposed to be) powerful enough to win the game without support from their team. This creates a strong emphasis on teamwork and cooperation.
Each player typically receives a small amount of gold per second during the course of the game. Moderate amounts of gold are rewarded for killing hostile computer-controlled units and larger amounts are rewarded for killing enemy heroes. Gold is used by heroes to buy a variety of different items that range in price and impact. For the most part, this involves improving the combat viability of the hero, although there may be other items that support the hero or team as a whole in different ways.
As the heroes of each team get stronger, they can use multiple strategies to gain an advantage. These strategies can include securing objectives, killing enemy heroes and farming gold by killing computer-controlled units. The stronger a team gets, the more capable they are at destroying the enemy team and their base.
Character classes and roles
In most MOBAs, playable characters have assigned classes such as "tank", "marksman", "mage", "fighter", "assassin" and "support". Most champions (heroes) can be played as "carry", "support" and "ganker"; the number and type of roles can differ depending on the game. The carry role is expected to scale and itemize themselves to do the most damage against enemy characters and objectives, but may also require protection and assistance from their team members. Supports are characters who support the entire team with abilities that are meant to aid allies and disable or slightly harm enemies. Some supports have healing abilities which can be vital factor in your team composition's success, giving health and sustain to an ally while limiting enemy's options in terms of play patterns. Ganker roles are flexible, as they have both carry and support skills that are used to disrupt and eliminate enemies, thus giving their teammates an advantage over their opponents. Gankers can "act as a strategist, decision-maker or supporter depending on the team's needs." Player roles can also be classified by the particular lane they are focusing on, such as "top laner", "mid laner", and "bottom laner", or by their role in teamfight, such as "frontliner", "damage dealer", "healer", "flex", and the "offlaner".
Resemblance to other genres
As a fusion of real-time strategy, role-playing, and action games, members of the genre have lost many traditional RTS elements. This type of games moved away from constructing additional structures, base management, army building, and controlling additional units. Map and the main structures for each team are still present, and destroying enemy main structure will secure victory as the ultimate victory condition. Players can find various friendly and enemy units on the map at any given time assisting each team, however these units are computer-controlled and players usually don't have direct control over their movement and creation; instead, they march forward along set paths. Unlike in real-time strategy games (RTS), player has control over the only one single unit, called hero or champion. However, some MOBA games have certain heroes which control a few specialized units, but not on a massive scale which is typical for RTS.
The MOBA genre resembles role-playing games (RPG) in gameplay, though the MOBA genre focuses on the multiplayer battle in the arena-like environment, while RPG as genre typically revolve around single player story and its chapters, and exploration of different locations. A key features, such as control over one character in a party, growth in power over the course of match, learning new thematic abilities, using of mana, leveling and accumulation of experience points, equipment and inventory management, completing quests, and fighting with the stationary boss monsters, have resemblance with role-playing games.
History
Origins
The roots of the genre can be traced back decades to one of the earliest real-time strategy titles, the 1989 Sega Mega Drive/Genesis game Herzog Zwei. It has been cited as a precursor to, or an early example of, the MOBA genre. It used a similar formula, where each player controls a single command unit in one of two opposing sides on a battlefield. Herzog Zwei's influence is also apparent in several later MOBA games such as Guilty Gear 2: Overture (2007) and AirMech (2012).
In 1998, Future Cop: LAPD featured a strategic Precinct Assault mode similar to Herzog Zwei, in which the players could actively fight alongside generated non-player units. The PC version also allowed for online competitive play, technically making Future Cop: LAPD the first MOBA game ever released as, unlike Herzog Zwei, it meets the criteria of an online battle arena.
Also in 1998, computer game company Blizzard Entertainment released its best-selling real-time strategy game (RTS) StarCraft with a suite of game editing tools called StarEdit. The tools allowed members of the public to design and create custom maps that allowed play that was different from the normal maps. A modder known as Aeon64 made a custom map named Aeon of Strife (AoS) that became popular. Aeon64 stated that he was attempting to create gameplay similar to that of Future Cop: LAPD's Precinct Assault mode[citation needed]. In the Aeon of Strife map, players controlled a single powerful hero unit fighting amidst three lanes, though terrain outside these lanes was nearly vacant.
Establishing the genre: 2000s
In 2002, Blizzard released Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (WC3), with the accompanying Warcraft III World Editor. Both the multiplayer online battle arena and tower defense subgenres took substantive shape within the WC3 modding community. A modder named Eul began converting Aeon of Strife into the Warcraft III engine, calling the map Defense of the Ancients (DotA). Eul substantially improved the complexity of play from the original Aeon of Strife mod. Shortly after creating the custom DotA map, Eul left the modding scene. With no clear successor, Warcraft III modders created a variety of maps based on DotA and featuring different heroes. In 2003, after the release of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, a map creator named Meian created a DotA variant closely modeled on Eul's map, but combining heroes from the many other versions of DotA that existed at the time. Called DotA: Allstars, it was inherited after a few months by a modder called Steve "Guinsoo" Feak, and under his guidance it became the dominant map of the genre. After more than a year of maintaining the DotA: Allstars map, with the impending release of an update that significantly changed the map layout, Guinsoo left the development to his adjutant Neichus in the year 2005. After some weeks of development and some versions released, the latter turned over responsibility to a modder named IceFrog, who initiated large changes to the mechanics that deepened its complexity and capacity for innovative gameplay. The changes conducted by IceFrog were well-received and the number of users on the Dota: Allstars forum is thought to have peaked at over one million. Defense of the Ancients (DotA) is largely attributed to being the most significant inspiration for the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game genre in the years to come.
Mainstream popularity: 2008–present
By 2008, the popularity of DotA had attracted commercial attention. That year, The Casual Collective released Minions, a Flash web game. Gas Powered Games also released the first stand-alone commercial title in the genre, Demigod (2009). In late 2009, Riot Games' debut title, League of Legends initially designed by the one of the original creators of DotA Allstars, Steve Feak, was released. Riot began to refer to the game's genre as a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA). Also in 2009, IceFrog, who had continued to develop DotA: Allstars, was hired by Valve, in order to design a sequel to the original map.
In 2010, S2 Games released Heroes of Newerth, with a large portion of its gameplay and aesthetics based on DotA: Allstars. The same year, Valve announced Dota 2 and subsequently secured the franchise's intellectual property rights, after being contested by Riot Games for the DotA trademark. In 2012, Activision Blizzard settled a trademark dispute with Valve over the usage of the DOTA trademark and announced their own standalone game, which was eventually named Heroes of the Storm. Dota 2 was released in 2013, and was referred to by Valve as an "action real-time strategy" game. In 2014, Hi-Rez Studios released Smite, a MOBA with a third-person perspective. Heroes of the Storm was released in 2015, featuring numerous original heroes from Warcraft III and other Blizzard's franchises. Blizzard adopted their own personal dictation for their game's genre with "hero brawler", citing its focus on action.
Next-generation wave and market saturation
In recent years, numerous video game developers and publishers, following the success of League of Legends and Dota 2, tried to be part of the next-generation MOBA wave by putting their own twist in the genre, releasing games such as Battlerite (2017), and AirMech (2018). However, not everyone succeeded. After years of development, many games which were supported by "big-name" publishers have never been officially released or their servers were shut down shortly after release. The most notable examples are Dawngate (2015) by Electronic Arts, DC Comics-based Infinite Crisis (2015) by Warner Bros., Arena of Fate (2016) by Crytek, Gigantic (2017) by Perfect World Entertainment, Master X Master (2018) by NCSoft, and Paragon (2018) by Epic Games.
During the 2010s, with the expansion of the smartphone market, numerous MOBA titles have been released for portable devices, such as Vainglory (2014), and Arena of Valor (2016).
Data analytics and match prediction
Due to the large volume of MOBA matches played on a daily basis globally,[e] MOBA has become a platform to apply big data tools to predict match outcomes based on in-game factors such as hero kill/death/assist ratios, gold earned, time of a match, synergy with other players, team composition, and other parameters. Artificial Intelligence playing in matches and predicting match outcomes is being researched. Open AI developed the Open AI Five which were first showcased at the Dota 2 World Championship, The International 2017, during a 1v1 demonstration. Open AI returned to The International 2018 where the Open AI Five played in two games against professional players.

"Ugh… What now?!" Although they were used to robbing and killing in the Legend of Mir 2, this game seemed different since the people that they faced appeared to be defenseless ordinary people, even though they didn't know the situation.
They didn't even know what their characters were doing.
"Sir, is this a so-called role-playing game?" Ruan Ning obviously got this term from the players of Jiuhua City. In the Legend of Mir 2, the characters that the players controlled represented themselves. However, in role-playing games, the characters that players controlled had their own lives and backgrounds.
In other words, the players would experience other people's lives.
"Why is this so weird?" She remembered that role-playing games were very classical, such as the Legend of the Sword and Fairy and Resident Evil, but those games were not released in this shop yet.
On the other side, after killing the hostages by accident, the Xichi Spiritual Master heard her teammate murmur some cussing words and then reminded her, "Detonate the bomb!"
Obviously, this was a tutorial since another prompt appeared on the screen. [Please use your cell phone to detonate the bomb.]
After digging out the cell phone from her pocket, she saw a number for detonation and dialed it…
The explosive device set at the entrance of the vault of the bank was quickly activated.
Then, they went into the vault with teammates and took hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"Huh?" The more they played, the stranger they felt.
"Yun'er…" The Xichi Spiritual Master clicked on the external communication option and yelled, "How come this world is even stranger than the one in Harry Potter?"
"Yeah." Liu Ningyun killed a guard with her gun and said, "I have the same feeling. Are they robbing stuff? And they even killed several guards."
Watching from behind, Ning Bi said, "Little Girl, aren't you doing the same?"
"I would have died if I didn't do it!" Liu Ningyun controlled Michael to hide in a corner and yelled, "Ah! There are so many of them. What's this game really about?!"
She still didn't know much about the situation except that this scene happened nine years ago, which meant that this might be the memory of one of the characters.
"How come the weapons in the world of Muggles are so powerful?" Ruan Ning murmured to herself while she dashed out, shooting with her submachine gun. She laughed wildly, "Hahaha! This weapon is fun to play with! I'll kill my way out!"
"This girl is almost out…" Liu Ningyun tried to catch up. Obviously, this was a scene from someone's memory, and she couldn't change the plot. Therefore, she could only follow the instructions.
Although her marksmanship was bad, her teammates were good at this, so the plot continued slowly.
Obviously, this was a bank robbery, and the characters that they played were robbers. However, the plan wasn't successful. Also, someone had leaked the information to the police, and many police cars raced over to the bank.
After the tutorial, most of the robbers died or were wounded, except two guys which were two of the three main characters in the game, Michael and Trevor.
When they saw Michael stay at the scene after faking a gun wound, they understood who had leaked the information.
This was the end of the memory.
The offline portion of GTA 5 was like an American movie that the players could control. Nine years later, Michael obviously had gained lots of benefits by tipping off the police. Trevor, on the other hand, had escaped with a hostage. People were quite curious as to what would happen after that.
At this moment, the players had two options. One was to continue playing in the offline mode, and the other one was playing online with other players.
After putting down her virtual reality headset, the Xichi Spiritual Master, who had never played such a game before, had many questions to ask
Mr. Fang explained things such as guns and the worldview in detail.
"Do you mean that the purpose of this role-playing game is for us to experience another person's life with our own perspective?" The Xichi Spiritual Master asked in surprise, "Is it something like going through reincarnation and cleansing one's mind in the mortal world?"
"Going through reincarnation and cleansing one's mind in the mortal world, one would experience the mystery of a fetus and all kinds of trials and tribulations in the mortal world." Ning Bi stared at the screen intensely and said. "But we can exit from this game at any time. Besides, as for the stuff named technology that the shop owner mentioned, are the people of Dajin really studying it now?"
"Sir, can we do whatever we want in the game?" Black Demon, who was planning to go online to play The Legend of Mir 2, looked over.
Liu Ningyun started at Fang Qi fiercely. In the Legend of Mir 2, players could kill and take treasures from others, but the general worldview and values were acceptable.
However, why do the characters in this game look like evil criminals?
"Do you want us to experience the lives of these people?" Liu Ningyun was not pleased. After all, she was the Nanhua Heavenly Fairy, and it was beneath her to do such evil deeds.
She felt like she had just participated in a robbery.
At this moment, Ruan Ning suddenly exclaimed, "How come I've changed to myself? I can adjust my own looks? Isn't it a role-playing game?"
Fang Qi explained, "Now, you can choose the online mode or offline mode. You've just experienced the offline mode. As for the online mode, you can enter this world as yourself, and you can decide on what you're going to do."
"Ugh?" Liu Ningyun's contempt expression disappeared. "I can do this!"
Meanwhile, Ruan Ning had just entered the game.
On the screen was a bird view of a huge city which was many times bigger than any city that they had ever seen. They couldn't even see the end of it.
The skyscrapers soared into the clouds, and helicopters were flying in the sky under the setting sun. All kinds of cars were driving on the wide roads orderly, and rows of fancy houses lined the coastline with coconut trees in their front lawns. Since these houses were on the beach, people could see the blue ocean. Compared with the remote and hermit-like lives in Qzone, this was a luxurious sight.
In fact, they had seen some views of the modern world in Harry Potter, but this place was obviously cleaner, neater, and more advanced than the one in Harry Potter.
In Harry Potter, they were amused by the ignorant and incompetent mortals in the same world. But now, they saw that these talentless ordinary people, who were the muggles despised by the wizards and witches in Harry Potter, had created a great civilization!
In the grand and fancy car dealer shops were all kinds of modern, metallic, and luxurious cars. The rich people were playing all kinds of sports, such as golf and tennis, and huge, snow-white passenger planes flew fast in the sky. Through the windows, they could see passengers who were sitting orderly inside.
When the whole world was presented to them like a huge picture, a shocking sensation rose in them silently.
This was the world created by the ordinary people in their eyes.
Spiritual boats? They had planes.
Demon beast carriages? They had cars.
Not to mention all kinds of mysterious and weird-looking weapons.
They were stunned to find that even these ordinary people had created a civilization no less advanced than their own.


We’ve had systems that help the MCs make pills, steal skills from legendary masters, and even be forced to show off to earn points, but what about a system that allows one to run a virtual reality internet cafe, featuring all the classic games?

Our MC awakens in a new world (Truck-kun strikes again) and finds himself with a mysterious system that allows him to run a fully self-sufficient virtual reality internet cafe! What? Opening an internet cafe in a cultivator world? You can now surf the internet, watch dramas, and play video games?!

One Emperor Warrior cried after visiting MC’s shop, “Damn, Blizzard completes my life!”
Another Yuan River Realm cultivator gasped after drinking Sprite, “What is this sorcery?” 

What else did the MC bring to the cultivator world? Come join us on this adventure as Fang Qi faces off against cultivation sects and major forces with his collection of modern treasures.

The actresses who hadn't had their turn all frowned at Lin Yan, looking hostile and displeased.
"Errr… Did I mishear her? She is the only one who can portray Yeva? Who does she think she is? Is she Yeva in real life?"
"It's indeed annoying to hear such boasting words. What does she mean by saying she is the only one who can act as Yeva? She may have portrayed Lin Pianruo well previously, but there are dozens of others who are better than her. How could she be compared to Lin Shuya in terms of popularity or acting skills?"
"I think she is just bragging casually." One of the actresses sniggered coldly. "To be honest, I didn't really think that she acted well earlier. She just showed something new. If we were to act that out, I reckon I wouldn't lose to her. It's her blessing that Mr. Zhou Qiao is willing to offer her a role. I didn't imagine that she would be so snobbish as to turn the role down. How dare she have the audacity to claim that she is the only one fit to act as the Race Track's Grim Reaper? What a mighty joke!" 
…
"Miss Lin Yan, you may go back to wait for news." The producer of Legend waved his hand impatiently.
He had never once met an actress like her. They had plainly stated that she was unsuitable to portray Yeva and even offered her another role, yet she was still unsatisfied.
"Sure, I'll wait for good news." Lin Yan gave Zhou Qiao and the rest a feeble smile before she turned on her heel.
…
Meanwhile, at Cloud Manor…
Pei Yutang was playing games on the couch. Lin Yan crept towards him and saw that he was being defeated horribly.
"Do you need an expert to help you? I promise that you will rise up in ranks." Lin Yan settled beside Pei Yutang with a grin.
Pei Yutang glanced at Lin Yan and snapped to his senses. He hastily shook his head. "No, no, no. Sister-in-law… It's just a game… Ranks don't matter at all!"
Pei Yutang had sworn to himself that he would never play with Lin Yan again. How could she claim that she was an expert? He wouldn't be willing to play with her even if she were to offer him money.
Pei Yutang could never forget the eventful, horrific game that night.
Lin Yan had to be a spy sent by their opponents. 
He denied Lin Yan the chance to speak and glanced at her hastily. "Sister-in-law, why did you come back so early? How was your audition?"
"It ended." Lin Yan nodded.
"How was it? You failed, right?" Pei Yutang gazed at her.
Lin Yan was speechless…
This kid was really a conversation stopper.
"I think so too," Lin Yan answered honestly.
"Sister-in-law, that's what I said. You stood no chance whatsoever. You were just wasting your time. If you have so much free time, you should…"
Lin Yan interjected with a bright smile. "I should play games with you!"
Pei Yutang trembled in fear when he heard Lin Yan. "No, no! That wasn't what I was trying to say! Sister-in-law, if you have free time, you should go out for some afternoon tea or watch a tv drama. Playing games is a waste of your life!"
Lin Yan rolled her eyes at Pei Yutang. She couldn't be bothered to retort. Instead, she rose and went to her room.


Lin Yan is a professional car racer who fell from grace after her sister set her up. She becomes an actress for the sake of her boyfriend, who later cheats on her with her sister. Her life, career and relationships reach a slump.
Enter Pei Yucheng, the president of the JM corporation—a multinational conglomerate. He is unfathomable, cold and aloof. At random, he would mysteriously lose control of himself, and Lin Yan is the only one who is able to calm him down. The first time she meets him, she feels an indescribable fear deep within her soul. Unbeknownst to her, they had met each other a long time ago, but she had chosen to forget him…
Soon, something puzzling and strange begins to happen to her. Occasionally, she loses consciousness and ends up in Pei Yucheng's room the next day, completely unaware of how she ended up there. She suspects that something has possessed her…

Ayo thank you all for giving me about 100 reads I really appreciate it, I never thought this would happen I honestly did this so I can personally reamber the good times with Gabby, Imma do a Q&A soon so submit some things, I will try my best to answer them to the best of my abilities


Right now imma give you some extra things that the Characters do



Ryan:
Sexuality: STRAIGHT BUT MY MOTHER THINKS I AM GAY
Height:5,8
favorite food: anything good
Role model: Naruto
Favorite anime: any slice of life, and any good isekai
favorite person: Gabby
least favorite person: My dad
Hobbies:doodling a little, watching anime, playing Rainbow 7 siege and talking to Gabby


Ight so the reason why there isn't a father figure is bc I dont like my dad a whole bunch infact he is annoying, so he cheated on my mom, and then cheated on the person he cheated on my mom with, with now my step mom, and he never pays child support, he wasn't in my life for the first 5 months so yeah, he is a control freak(he controls how much internet I use, and has cameras set up around the house), makes rude comments on my mom, makes me do 1000 chores(Cleaning every window, cleaning his bathroom, bathe HIS dogs, sweep and mop the floors, and more stuff like if we fail we pick up every bit of dog shit in the dog shit infested yard)I have/had 3 sisters and 1 big brother i was the youngest so never did much besides get compared to them all the time, so expectations are always high. thats about it


About the author: 
Fav game: Rainbow 7 siege
Hobbies: Writing, a lil bit of shitty drawing, playing rainbow six siege, talking to Gabby, SLEEPING, SLEEPING 
Fav anime: one piece and naruto atm always changes
fav food: anything that tastes good
role model: Madara UCHIHA BEST WAIFU
best waifu: Hinata bc she stayed by Narutos side no matter what even if there was a fox in him
best husbando: 1# Speedwagon, 2# Madara Uchiha, 3# obito/Tobi/spiral white zetsu/madara fake/ best waifu 
Instagram:@mythicmaddness8 
height: 5,8 
build:has some muscles on my arms, can lift 260 lbs 
fav class in any game:Assassin 
Ight so I originally planned this to be a memory thing for me, and then slowly ppl started reading it and oh boy did I underestimate you guys, only thought 10 would read and thats all NOPE, about 100 of you ppl, like bro its just how I met Gabby and all, I don't even know how tf you guys like this its just random shit compiled into an order of which me and Gabby remember, but thank you a lot now moving onto Gabby

About 2nd author/Gabby

height: 5,1-5,2 idk lol
fav sport: Gymnastics 
fav anime: Demon slayer
Hobbies: Talking to Ryan, doodling a little bit, playing games with Ryan it can be anything
fav color:Red,Blue, or purple
best waifu: Nezuko
best husbando:Speedwagon

So this was pretty much what Ryan just said, its about how we met and everything, nothing too special but you guys like it, we do plan on making some fan service soon, and making other stories, if you guys have any questions just dm Ryan @mythicmaddness8, I hope you all have a good day thank you for getting us to 100 readers 


Jason 
height:above average
build:legs built like a dumptruck
fav class in games: TANK
fav game: Elder scrolls online 
hobbies:Thinking about my crush, and playing games along with watching anime

thats about it I dont really have anything else besides thank you I am surprised that you guys actually like this shit, like bruh, its like a slice of life romance anime how tf do you like this 


THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!!! - AUTHORS, JASON

Ryan is a 9th grade with one friend and one crush this rom-com is about how Ryan slowly becomes closer and closer with his crush, but there are many things that make Ryan scared of dating,Ryan slowly gets closer and in the end he gets together with his crush and they become a happy couple, there will be two parts Ryan's side and Gabbys side and maybe Jason's side

Knowledge, The most fascinating of all the things which separate Human Beings from the several million species residing on the planet 'Earth'. With Knowledge, one could attain wisdom, and wisdom was the key to the path of Enlightenment. The meaning of the word,'Knowledge', varies from person to person which changes the understanding of Knowlege.
For some, Knowledge is key to leading a luxurious life. For others, it is key to succeed in life and for the remaining, Knowledge is getting advanced. As the creature called 'Human', advanced through millions of years of development, He tried to disrupt the natural balance to fulfill his selfish desires and ambitions.
Human beings started to develop himself further with the help of 'Technology', he became dependent on it such that it gave birth to fulfilling their dreams with the help of technology.
As it had been said, "When ambition and desire mixed with technology give birth to endless thirst to fulfill one's dream to that extent that one could accept his demise to get hold of it for once."



This is what happened when the wish to attain something turned into a desire. People tried to get hold of the Technology and force it to a greater extent which paved the way for two new terms,' Virtual Reality' and 'Augmented Reality'.
[1] Virtual Reality: A simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from the real world. Applications of virtual reality can include entertainment and educational purposes.
[2] Augmented Reality: An interactive experience of a real-world environment where the objects that reside in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory and olfactory.
Scientific Organisations from all over the world started to develop and enhance both the type of technological style and succeeded in doing so. As the whole world went through many advancements, many of the Game Development Companies decided to use these technological styles to develop a fully functional game that could fulfill each person's desires and dreams.
Game Development Companies took charge to develop a fully functional Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game [VRMMORPG], The world where the dreams come true. Alas! Game Development Companies were successful in creating the World of Dreams but, they weren't able to create the dream itself.
The old Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games [MMORPGs] and Multiplayer Online Battle Arena [MOBAs] still swarmed the market and made a better profit than the newly released Virtual Reality Games. Developing a fully functional Virtual Game drained too many resources and wealth which left several Companies bankrupt and many shut down.
Finally in the Year 2026, A fully functional Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game[MMORPG] named 'AlterEGO' came into the international market and the company which developed it, AstroFLT sold several copies of the game and earned a huge profit.
The Release of 'AlterEGO' resulted in the advent of a new age, 'The Golden Age', in the industry of gaming and thus starting the E-Sports World Championship with 'AlterEGO' as it's the central event.
The World of AlterEGO was worth visiting as it offered an immersive experience to the players and the world which was meant to become the dreams of many was called, 'Imperia' or simply 'The Lands of Imperials'.

Kate was a good ranker, infact she used to study very well but after coming to sixth standard her concentration totally lost. She was getting very less marks and she knew that her mom would take dad's belt and start beating whoever used to get less marks.

But that evening Carol failed the exam but kate and Daniela passed the exam with less marks. So carol thought of not showing the marks to mom. And so as usually they went to play.

But Anna got message from the school that all the students got their marks .Anna was waiting for Carol to say her marks but carol did not say so anna kept quite.

It was time for dinner, she called all of them for dinner, while they were having dinner Anna said who ever would finish their dinner fast would get a chance to play on the computer.

Carol ready to play on the computer had her dinner like a jet plane and went and sat near the computer to play but there came mom with a stick in her hand and bet the hand which went to open the computer's switch she bet her very harshly.

She said-"Failed your exam and hid the exam papers from me but ready to play on the computer shameless monkey. " Then she called out Daniela in the room and bet her alot for getting less marks in the exam.

Kate got scared so she slowly crept and went into bedroom and slept. From the other day their time table became very strict. No playing for them was provided. The re exam of Carol was in summer vacation.

Mom strictly said Carol that-" Everyone will be enjoying their summer vacation but you should just keep on studying. Until you pass your examination don't think of enjoyment. "Kate started making fun on her as Carol used to do.

During summer vacation she wrote the exam and this time  passed it As it was summer everyone decided to go to a farmhouse.so all  the cousins went to farmhouse there they enjoyed alot with their cousins-"Sophia Alice,Charlotte Esme and Emelia mary ,she was the youngest in the whole family."

Kate, Daniela, Sophia and Charlotte were very close to each other they made a group of four of them called-"HEART BREAKERS"  They said anyone who calls all of them together should call them heart breakers.

After leaving from farmhouse,All of them went to their grandmother's house all the cousins spent time with each other and enjoyed alot.Daily they would try making new recipes.They all loved living in their Granny's house.they were very happy there.

Heart breakers got bored so they decided to make a horror movie because they got fed up playing the same games and watching TV.

So they all started making the horror movie.In which kate was playing the role of ghost and Sophia was playing the role of a heroine and Sophia's brother was the movie hero. Charlotte was the camera man and her brother was side role actor and Daniela was heroine's best friend.

The movie turned out to be perfect but after making the movie they still wanted to do something different.

So they decided to sit in the form of a circle and decided to tell some horror situations which really took place with them Kate started-"During the school when we had games period my six friends and I decided to play charlie charlie ... Game ,so one of my friend brought paper and four pencils with her so we played that game back of the school bus so while we were saying Charlie charlie are you here... The paper flew away due to heavy wind so all girls shouted and ran from there seeing them even i ran when we came to an end i put my hand in my pocket so i found a blue pen which i never used when I asked others a girl whom i didn't know came to me and said it was hers i still don't know whether it was something by nature or Witt wanted.

Translated by Coldtaco
Edited by Aelryinth
After grabbing his seat, Chen Mo started to observe the situation around him.
The audience had already been seated, around seven hundred people. Some of them were making conversation and others were playing on their phones.
The telecommunication technology in this world was very advanced. A normal sim card would have mobile data upwards of hundreds of gigabytes. Furthermore, the amazing signal strength and coverage was more than enough to watch videos or live streams.
Chen Mo had felt that this was a reason that mobile games hadn't taken off. Most would be playing VR games when they reached home. Mobile games were usually played when people were bored. Moreover, there were movies, TV series, variety shows, live streams, news, and social media, so it was unlikely one would be playing mobile games to pass the time.
Entertainment in the parallel world was also very developed, meaning that video game alternatives were also quite abundant. Combined with the fact that mobile data cost barely any money, so movies were at anyone's fingertips, and many opted to not play mobile games.
Of course, the majority of the audience were gamers, in particular mobile gamers. Only mobile game lovers would attend an event like this!
After all, this competition was for amateurs. There were barely any D-grade video game designers among the participants. What kind of game could they possibly design? At most, there would be a few simpler casual mobile games.
Most of the audience probably entered with a free ticket, not bearing high hopes for the competition.
There were also the three judges who had just arrived at the venue.
The three judges had their names on plates in front of them on their table. Using his phone, Chen Mo did a quick check on their identities.
Shi Huazhe, forty-seven years old, B-grade video game designer. Used to work at Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, but had since retired and is now a professional video game critic.
Lin Hai, thirty-nine years old. B-grade video game designer at Zen Entertainment. Now working in management and no longer working in video game R&D. Video game reviewer.
Qiu Hengyang, twenty-seven, B-grade videogame designer. Founder of Hengyou.com.
The judges were coincidentally about 10 years apart, in their twenties, thirties, and forties, covering the golden ages of a videogame designer.
Although it might seem like they are all B-grade video game designers, in reality, there was still a gap in their abilities.
Emperor Dynasty Entertainment and Zen Entertainment were the two best companies in video game R&D on the mainland. Combined they took up around eighty percent of the video game industry here. Most video game designers like to work there to improve their CVs.
However, just because they came out of those companies didn't mean they were good. For example, Shi Huazhe might have worked at Emperor Dynasty and had a few decent games, but in reality, it wasn't because of skill or knowledge, but purely due to years of effort.
As for Lin Hai, his design skills were much better than Shi Huazhe, but ever since he entered a managerial role, his abilities had been getting rusty.
Under these circumstances, it seemed that twenty-seven-year-old Hengyang was the best in terms of video game design. A B-grade video game designer at a young age and the founder of hengyang.com, his future seemed brighter than the previous two.
"Hopefully the three judges will go easy on me. At the very least, one of you will pass my game...'' Chen Mo prayed quietly.
The other contestants were also quite nervous. There were a total of twenty contestants, but the highest prize was only given to the first place.
Although the certification of a D-grade designer was more important, clearly the ones who had entered were after the three hundred thousand cash and the experience store. Most of them had the mentality of first place or bust!
Soon after, the competition started.
------
Emcee hyping up the crowd.
Leader's speech.
Judges' introduction
Judges' speech...
After the long foreplay, the main event finally came.
The MC saw the audience dozing off. Four hundred of the seven hundred were on their phones, another two hundred of them were whispering to one another, and some of them even fell asleep in their seats.
It couldn't be helped, these were essential parts of an official event.
"Ahem." The emcee cleared his throat, hinting at the audience to wake up for the main event.
"Alright, up next is the highlight of this competition, the selection round! Allow me to reiterate the rules!
"Everyone in the audience should have received a tablet for testing. They come with the games of all the contestants preinstalled."
Chen Mo looked over; everyone in the audience had a tablet on the table in front of them. As the emcee finished his sentence, all the tablets turned on automatically.
"For the next hour, everyone in the audience can test out any game of their liking on the laptop. At the same time, we will put up a short introduction for each of the games on the main screen.
"When you quit the game, you can either choose 'recommended' or 'not recommended'. Recommended means you are willing to share this game with your friends.
"Our judges will test out these twenty games within the time limit as well.
"After an hour, we will gather the playtime and the number of recommendations from everyone, which will decide the rankings.
"After this will be the discussion round for the judges. After getting to know the opinions of the judges, everyone in the audience will get another chance to either recommend or not recommend each of the games.
"Finally, the designer who designed the game that tops the charts with the combined score after considering the playtime and the number of recommendations will be crowned the champion!"
The emcee changed the topic, emphasizing, "Please take note! Even after first place has been chosen, the judges have the power to veto the decision. This will require unanimous votes from all three of them. In that case, second place will take the first spot, so on and so forth.
"Everyone understand? Alright, the one hour starts now!"
Without needing the announcement of the MC, the audience excitedly started playing.
Chen Mo had known the rules beforehand, which is why he was so worried about the judges.
In the first round, the audience played a huge role, as the playtime and their recommendations directly influenced the rankings.
However, the judges were even more important!
Firstly, there was the discussion round, and the audience would receive another vote after that. That meant the judges could influence the decisions of the audience. If the first two performers were neck and neck, and the judges praised one of them, obviously the results would be influenced.
Secondly, the judges had the ability to veto. If a unanimous decision was reached by the judges, failing the game, achieving first place would mean nothing.
This was probably due to the respect this world had towards video game designers. But in Chen Mo's opinion, these rules were completely meaningless and incredibly stupid.
In the end, he was only a competitor. All he could do was suck it up.
At the same time, Chen Mo's game introduction had appeared on the screen!


Chen Mo liked calling himself a video game designer, despite being a mere video game producer.
After dying one day from work-related stress, he transmigrated into a parallel world as himself, right after he graduated. He was now in the body of his younger self, who also aspired to be a video game designer. 
Will he be able to fulfill his dream after being reborn in this oddly different new world, and become the best video game designer in that world?
Follow Chen Mo on his romp through video game classics as he brings the great games of the past to a whole new world in pursuit of his dreams!
Note: This Novel has been continued as a passion project by its translator. The continuation of this novel will not affect the result of Trial Reading or Voting Pool. 

It's strange isn't it? My life? Oh! Off course how on earth will you be able to know my life! If you want to know my opinion about the life of which I'm the owner, I would say, it's complicated. Yes, it's full of suspense, thrill, adventure and yeah, the most important thing, romance. I love to play games, in my childhood, games were the only thing I cared of. I was not a good student, not at all! I am an otaku, or an anime freak! I'm Taki Suzuno. During my time, online games were very popular. And probably those changed my life forever. Most of the hours in a day, I used to spend them in either playing online VRMMORPG games or watching animes. And those who are not familiar with the word VRMMORPG, why fear? I'm here to decipher, it's Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. 
        Those games are basically played using a Virtual Reality Gear or a VR device. During those days VR games were made by many companies but at the top of the leaderboard was the CaronStrap. They probably built the highest graphics game, and being a gamiomaniac, I used to purchase each and every games produced by the company. VR world was a different world as compared to our real world. VR can lead to many possibilities in occurrence of a world, particular VR game had its own world with it's own sort of rules and powers which were given to it's fellow players. I even saw some of my friends going crazy over those game's high end graphics. The developers made it look real and we could even feel what was actually going around, quite intriguing, right? It was not kept upto that only, when you were playing the game, your body will be in a sleep mode, basically the CaronStrap send EM waves to our neurons which gets numb just as the way it occurs during while we are asleep. And yeah technology went quite high, why shouldn't it be? After all it's 2120. We are no longer in the old days where only computer's first player perspective games are being played. The thing which I loved the most about VR games is that, you can make all sorts of friends from all over the globe. If you aren't even a social person, who knows the VR world can even change your personality! In short a VR world had infinite possibilities. 
        But one of the possibilities took me away from my world, I mean the real world. At one point of time in my life I forgot what real life really was. I used to get totally indulge into the game. I used to spend hours in completing levels and getting ranked at a prestigious rank. It is like a yarn of many individual threads tangled together, if you pull one string the others used to get their shapes changed, guess that's what happened to me. At certain point, I no longer was Taki; I was completely an unknown person. Frustrated, exhausted and depressed. But still couldn't resist myself from being in touch with the CaronStrap. 
        Now let us be together and find what were the possibilities which were faced by me in real world as well as the VR world. Guess we will indeed have great time in revealing the adventures which I had!

Taki Suzuno, a boy in his teenage; gets too involved in video gamings  and an unseen romance. But the romance took his life to a new level. Weaved into his deep emotions, and challenges yet to come which needs to be conquored. Will he be able to achieve all or loose all... Gotta wait and watch

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